"In your face, Republicans!"
Apparently this is yet another example of John Stewart driving the national agenda. If you don't watch television, you probably didn't know there was an issue with the name of a mountain in Alaska. You almost certainly didn't care about the issue you probably didn't know about. But now you're being mocked for losing a debate you didn't know we were having, about an issue you didn't care about. It's really important, the mockery.
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Stewart's merely a puppet of the Left. He doesn't drive anything, including his own Jewish (non) identity.
Perhaps you could switch to identifying the people whom you don't think are 'puppets of the Left.' It might save time.
Losing is a choice. There's no loss here if there's no interest.
On the other hand, maybe President [Fiorina/Rubio/Walker/Bush/Carson/Christie] should move to restore JFK Airport to its original Idlewild name. After all, apparently New Yorkers still refer to the place by that name.
Eric Hines
Frankly, I give less than a hoot about what anyone calls that mountain. Calling President McKinley a "Republican Hero" is a stretch and a half. If anyone can honestly tell me three facts about McKinley without looking them up (and no credit for "he had a mountain named for him", "he was President", or "he was a Republican"), then I'll concede that you have some skin in the game. But most people I know cannot, and as a result, don't actually care about what the mountain is named.
I confess I haven't heard it called anything but "Denali" for so long that I've had to make a special effort to remember that the "old" name was McKinley. That's what comes of hanging out in a PC crowd throughout most of my working life. Among the people who vacationed up that way, it was a status marker to remember always to call it Denali, like the park it's in, because obviously you're down with the oppressed First Peoples. To say "McKinley" would have been in the same class as referring to Asians as Oriental, or Southwest Asia as the Middle East.
This is a hill I wouldn't die on. I don't care about McKinley's memory particularly. It is annoying for the executive branch to keep poking a stick in the eye of the legislative branch and get away with it, but the executive branch won this cultural battle so thoroughly that the legislative battle became irrelevant, which should be a lesson to us.
Honestly, the first I heard about it was when FB exploded with people congratulating each other over having beaten conservatives by restoring the old name. I don't think I'd ever heard the name "Denali" before, and if anyone has mentioned the mountain since grade school geography class, I can't recall it.
Nor, like Mike, could I have named three accomplishments of President McKinley without looking them up. In fact, before yesterday, if you'd asked me for a list of Presidents I don't think I'd have come up with him on it.
MikeD - McKinley was the last president to be a military veteran of the Civil war; he saw combat in the Civil War; he led the US in the Spanish-American War.
I think things should have been left alone.
LittleRed1
What good is power if you can't meddle? Mr. Lewis--
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
From what I have read, the REPUBLICAN senators from Alaska have been trying to the change the name for years, but the REPUBLICAN representatives from Ohio have been blocking it one way or the other.
Meh.
MikeD - McKinley was the last president to be a military veteran of the Civil war; he saw combat in the Civil War; he led the US in the Spanish-American War.
You are a rare one with skin in the game. By the way, he was also one of the few Presidents to be assassinated. That fact, the mountain, and the Spanish-American War were the only elements I knew of before looking it up.
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